Announcements

The three year project is titled Towards an understanding of structural drivers of HIV/STI and protective factors among sexual and gender minority youth in Kingston, Jamaica. The co-applicant is Peter Newman, one of the co-investigators is Charmaine Williams. The project was ranked…

The project aims to understand: How Mainland Chinese immigrants negotiate their previously learned and newly acquired cultural knowledge, beliefs, and practices within their families; How these individuals negotiate with and respond to their new globalized cultural environments; and What social…

Professor Esme Fuller-Thomson, Sandra Rotman Chair in Social Work, and former MSW student, Sarah Brennenstuhl, published an invited commentary in the Lancet on the “forgotten victims of violence”: individuals living with disabilities. Their commentary underlines the importance of coordinating efforts…

Dr. Peter Newman was awarded this grant for the CHVI (Canadian HIV Vaccine Initiative) Team in Social and Behavioural Research on HIV Vaccines. The program of research will advance evidence to support meaningful engagement of most at risk populations for…

Samantha Yee (Ph.D. student) received the CIHR Institute of Gender and Health Research Skills Development Award to receive training in the UK on altruistic gamete donor recruitment models, public education strategies, and services to support individuals and families involved in donor…

Deborah Sinclair (Ph.D student) was awarded second year funding for a CIHR innovative research training fellowship of $21,000 for her proposal on “Women at the Intersections of Mental Health, Trauma, Addictions and Domestic Violence” through its IMPART program (The Intersections…

Dr. Ramona Alaggia, Factor-Inwentash Chair in Children’s Mental Health recently sat on a Roundtable to provide research expertise to the Today’s Parent research team to develop a parent’s survey about children’s mental health awareness. The Roundtable included parents and young…

Dr. Charmaine C. Williams’ proposal – Ain’t I a woman too? Looking at intersectionality’s relevance to the next generation of women’s health research Dr. David Brennan’s proposal – Double Jeopardy? A Salon on the Joys and Discontents of Aging with HIV (a collaboration…